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WoMO '07
2nd International Workshop on Modular Ontologies

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Modular Ontologies
WoMO'07

Whistler, Canada, October 28, 2007.

Workshop at the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2007)

Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, University of Manchester, UK
Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA,
Anne Schlicht, University of Mannheim, Germany,
Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK

Table of Contents

1. Importing from Functional Knowledge Bases - A Preview
   Alex Borgida, Fausto Giunchiglia
2. Towards a Parametric Ontology Modularization Framework Based on Graph Transformation
   Mathieu d'Aquin, Paul Doran, Enrico Motta, and Valentina Tamma
3. Three-Layer OWL Ontology Design
   Michel Dumontier, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales
4. Alignment-based modules for encapsulating ontologies
   Jérôme Euzenat, Antoine Zimmermann, and Fred Freitas
5. Modules in Transition - Conservativity, Composition, and Colimits
   Oliver Kutz, Till Mossakowski
6. Computing OWL Ontology Decompositions Using Resolution
   Robert Schiaffino, Achille Fokoue, Aditya Kalyanpur, Aaron Kershenbaum, Li Ma, Chintan Patel, Edith Schonberg, Kavitha Srinivas
7. The State of Multi-User Ontology Engineering
   Julian Seidenberg, Alan Rector
8. Knowledge Representation for the Distributed, Social SemanticWeb - Named Graphs, Graph Roles and Views in NRL
   Michael Sintek, Ludger van Elst, Gunnar Grimnes, Simon Scerri, Siegfried Handschuh